362 INTRODUCTION OF BLACK AMERICAN BASS. 



The leather carp is the name given to this fish when 

 the big bright scales are absent, which is sometimes 

 the case. 



In May, 1873, Lord Arthur Eussell kindly presented 

 to me four living specimens of the Speigel or looking- 

 glass carp. They were presented to Lord Odo Eussell, 

 ambassador at Berlin, by Comit Mmister. 



Of these four fish two are now alive and w^ell at my 

 museum, South Kensington. 



Li October, 1880, Lord Odo Eussell brought to 

 Woburn Abbey from Berlin, six Cijprinus rex Cypriyioruni 

 bred at Trachenfels, near Breslau, by Prince Herman 

 Hatzfeldt. 



PERCH ES. 



BLACK BASS. 



{^Grijstes nigncans.) 



Among the perches that promise well for acclimatisation, 

 the fish which seems to me to be the most suitable of 

 all is the Bhick Bass of Canada {Gryates nigricans). 



Li December, 1878, Mr. Begg, a Scotch gentleman 

 who has a residence at Orillia, not far from Lake Huron, 

 brought to England some living specimens of black bass. 

 These fish he caught in Lake Eosseau. They were the 

 black bass of the St. Lawrence, the Huro nigricans, 

 Grystes nigricans. Most of these bass were sent to Mr. 

 Mason of Eynsham Hall, Oxford, and Mr. Begg him- 

 self took a number of them to Dunrobin Castle, the seat 

 of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland. 



It is to the Marquis of Exeter, of Burleigh House, 

 Stamford, that English fish culturists owe the present 

 acclimatisation of black bass into this country. 



Mr. Silk, the able and successful pisciculturist to the 

 marquis, has been twice to America at his lordship's 



